you know for years we’ve been puzzling
over the problem of showing people
what’s happening in the environment out
in the ocean because so much of the
important things that are happening to
the ocean are happening you know way
offshore out of sight or underneath the
surface of the water you can’t see
what’s below the waves and you can’t see
what’s more than ten miles offshore
nobody ever sees that I think it’s
really important for people to realize
that yeah the ocean is huge but it’s not
infinite the oceans are running out of
fish it’s all the nations of the world
commercial fishing vessels are taking
too many fish they’re competing with
each other to catch declining fish
stocks so they’re working harder and
harder and harder to catch fewer and
fewer fish so in the end that will be a
fish global fishing watch is a
partnership between sky truth Oceana and
Google to take all of the trackable
commercial fishing activity in the ocean
around the world and put it on a map on
the web for everybody to see so part of
what we do at sky truth is just try to
make the invisible visible and we
stumbled across this technology called
automatic identification system and it’s
a ship-to-ship system of radio frequency
broadcasts where vessels can tell each
other where they are who they are how
big they are and where they’re moving
and how fast and it turns out that these
ship-to-ship broadcasts can be
intercepted by satellites flying over
had a couple hundred miles up based on
the way the fishing vessel is moving
out in the ocean we can tell when it’s
actually engaged in fishing activity so
as long as you’re actually broadcasting
we can construct a path that your vessel
is followed and put that on a map for
everybody and so now you can tell based
on when and where the fishing happened
overlaid with the map of what the rules
are you can see whether it was in a
place that would legal or not so it
starts from from a red and it goes up to
yellow and orange and white so the
intensity of it shows you how much
fishing is happening there and then it’s
just like you’re in Google Earth or
Google Maps just like you’d expect you
just zoom in and you move around and you
see where the fishing is and then you
have a you have a little time slider
that will let you move move through the
years and look at how the fishing
changed over time so with global fishing
watch right now even though the amount
of fishing activity that we’re able to
see and show people is kind of
jaw-dropping
it’s really only the tip of the iceberg
at this point and just a glimpse at what
the total commercial fishing picture is
we enable thousands of watch dogs who
are currently not don’t have the tools
to to speak up
and that’s exactly what motivates me
with sky truth is taking the unseen
world and making it more visible to more
people which inspires better management
over the problem of showing people
what’s happening in the environment out
in the ocean because so much of the
important things that are happening to
the ocean are happening you know way
offshore out of sight or underneath the
surface of the water you can’t see
what’s below the waves and you can’t see
what’s more than ten miles offshore
nobody ever sees that I think it’s
really important for people to realize
that yeah the ocean is huge but it’s not
infinite the oceans are running out of
fish it’s all the nations of the world
commercial fishing vessels are taking
too many fish they’re competing with
each other to catch declining fish
stocks so they’re working harder and
harder and harder to catch fewer and
fewer fish so in the end that will be a
fish global fishing watch is a
partnership between sky truth Oceana and
Google to take all of the trackable
commercial fishing activity in the ocean
around the world and put it on a map on
the web for everybody to see so part of
what we do at sky truth is just try to
make the invisible visible and we
stumbled across this technology called
automatic identification system and it’s
a ship-to-ship system of radio frequency
broadcasts where vessels can tell each
other where they are who they are how
big they are and where they’re moving
and how fast and it turns out that these
ship-to-ship broadcasts can be
intercepted by satellites flying over
had a couple hundred miles up based on
the way the fishing vessel is moving
out in the ocean we can tell when it’s
actually engaged in fishing activity so
as long as you’re actually broadcasting
we can construct a path that your vessel
is followed and put that on a map for
everybody and so now you can tell based
on when and where the fishing happened
overlaid with the map of what the rules
are you can see whether it was in a
place that would legal or not so it
starts from from a red and it goes up to
yellow and orange and white so the
intensity of it shows you how much
fishing is happening there and then it’s
just like you’re in Google Earth or
Google Maps just like you’d expect you
just zoom in and you move around and you
see where the fishing is and then you
have a you have a little time slider
that will let you move move through the
years and look at how the fishing
changed over time so with global fishing
watch right now even though the amount
of fishing activity that we’re able to
see and show people is kind of
jaw-dropping
it’s really only the tip of the iceberg
at this point and just a glimpse at what
the total commercial fishing picture is
we enable thousands of watch dogs who
are currently not don’t have the tools
to to speak up
and that’s exactly what motivates me
with sky truth is taking the unseen
world and making it more visible to more
people which inspires better management
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